Is this similar to http://path.com ?
Way better than path. This allows a level of interaction and intimacy (if they offer good integration with lists, which conveniently got 10x better last week) that you can't achieve on path.
Facebook Timeline
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I often receive friend requests from people who I have recently met through work, going out, friends of friends, etc. It seems like it would be a good way for these people who know a little bit about me to quickly learn a little more about me.
Agree and I probably wasn't clear in my original post. This does seem like a neatish feature, but (at least) some of the comments seem to make it sound like it's going to totally revive Facebook, which I can't see. Any new feature has to be a good thing though, I didn't express that clearly (at all?) in my original comment.
I have to agree with you; I couldn't care less about this feature.
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#143This in short is a great piece of design. Especially coming out of facebook this is amazing (well they now have one of the most talented designers so not that surprising). However, as a business this is killer and shrewd. Everyone would want to save a log of their life. More app permissions to add to timeline > more auto posts in ticker > more connection for Facebook. Well played! Disclosure: I am working on somethin…
I'm not really impressed with the design, but nothing out of FB has ever impressed me in the slightest. Maybe I'm just predisposed to be biased on this.
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#144I have been an internet junkie for ages, but i beg to differ. While fb has made it a norm it seems about sharing information, i dont think it is as inherent in the human psyche to share everything than getting what you need.While it served its purpose of making the web more open and engaging, a more fundamental trait is the concept of need and selectivity, which is what makes each individual unique.And due to the traction FB has gained over the past half decade, i think the web overall has missed the point, addressing individuality in terms of what you do instead of who u are, and what you need.
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#145I can't help but think of bitrot. You spend an afternoon "scrapbooking" in real life, and you get something that your grand-grandsons might, one day, inherit and read in awe. You spend an afternoon scrapbooking on FB, and in ten years FB goes bust or whatever (Geocities, anyone?), and you've got nothing. I guess the real test will be my wife -- she loves scrapbooking. (this, and the first time I went through the pres…
Never mind them going bust in ten years, in a year or two they'll redesign part of the site again and lose it anyway. For example, a while back they managed to lose parts of my profile (something to do with "pages" I think), and I used to be part of a group for my year at high school which, as far as I can tell, has silently vanished.
If it was an old-style group, it's gone from your profile, but you might be able to still see it here: http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622. However, they are apparently now "scheduled to be archived" and converted into new-style groups: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=18966
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#146This is great. The majority of social networks and social sharing sites are obsessed with the now. This stemmed from Facebook and Twitter pioneering the UI with the timeline format. However, try to go back really far in any timeline, and you'll usually be greeted with a wall. Timeline will hopefully make Facebook (and other sites) realize the potential there is in browsing through and curating older content. Sure, pe…
Just to make sure, you do realize you are talking about an eight-year-old website and making predictions about how its users will behave in approximately thirty years, right?
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#147I like how every picture on that page is of a white person.
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#148Does anyone here remember when Facebook had this feature back in 2004/2005? It was a little simpler, but exactly the same idea. They killed it a long time ago, but I guess they just decided to bring it back. The dude in the video has sure aged and accomplished an impressive amount in Facebook's 7 year history.
I think the idea didn't catch on because it has an obituary feel to it.
"showed a cool movie of a guy's entire life on Facebook's Timeline, but I was nervous they would go to the death part." -Kara Swisher
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
The examples that they are showing look awesome. I wonder if they will surface ex-girlfriends as "important" parts of your timeline.
I have always wondered why people are so shamed of their past emotions. Ex-girlfriends are part of your life, part of who you are even if you don't want to admit it. I suspect it to be somehow a configurable feature or you can always remove those manually.
> Ex-girlfriends are part of your life, part of who you are even if you don't want to admit it.
So are pilonidal cysts. But you may not want to broadcast all parts of your life to your entire Facebook friend list.